Slow Burning Love - James Taylor

It was a hot and sultry day somewhere in early September

I don’t hardly remember the day

Just the way the sun beat down upon the bay, baby

I did not even need to know your name

It was, oh, so plain to see that you had eyes for me

Halfway open, halfway closed, half-naked eyes for me, baby

It was a slow burning love, a fair-weather love affair

A slow burning, smoldering love for you and I

And like the sun on the edge of the Western sky, it died

Oh, the lights of the city were close at hand

I might just as well have been another man

You might just as well have been another girl

It might just as well have been another world

It was a slow burning love, a fair-weather love affair

A slow burning, smoldering love for you and I

And like the sun on the edge of the Western sky, it died

Oh, slow burning love

You were smoking up that day, some kind of hot

It was a slow burning love, a fair-weather love affair

A slow burning, smoldering love for you and I

And like the sun on the edge of the Western sky, it died